Emma Goto
The book does a good job at describing gender equality issues as it relates to the home. eg how men can be overly praised, even if they don't contribute with chores to the same extent as women, since it's at least better than what the stereotypical man is expected to do at home (very little).
And that women do a load of hidden work by carrying the mental load, so while the man might feel like it's a 50/50 partnership, it might not be actually. And how we need to hold them to a higher bar.
Obviously not just to bash on men, but women can contribute to this inequality by taking on too much of the childcare, and not giving men enough responsibility or the chance to be a proper parent, which exacerbates things since it doesn't give the man a chance to learn (which ultimately with childcare it's a thing that is learned by both genders, not something that is innate).
It also tries to provide real-life examples of men who are practicing gender equality in the home, and some actions you can take to get towards gender equality in your own home.
Note the book also has quite an emphasis on childcare since having children is probably the tipping point for when things start to become unequal in the home.
I don't feel like I walked away from reading this with any strong action items in my own life, so in that sense it wasn't that useful for me. But could be a good reminder if you happened to be in an unequal partnership that you should expect more out of your partner (or yourself).
The book does a good job at describing gender equality issues as it relates to the home. eg how men can be overly praised, even if they don't contribute with chores to the same extent as women, since it's at least better than what the stereotypical man is expected to do at home (very little).
And that women do a load of hidden work by carrying the mental load, so while the man might feel like it's a 50/50 partnership, it might not be actually. And how we need to hold them to a higher bar.
Obviously not just to bash on men, but women can contribute to this inequality by taking on too much of the childcare, and not giving men enough responsibility or the chance to be a proper parent, which exacerbates things since it doesn't give the man a chance to learn (which ultimately with childcare it's a thing that is learned by both genders, not something that is innate).
It also tries to provide real-life examples of men who are practicing gender equality in the home, and some actions you can take to get towards gender equality in your own home.
Note the book also has quite an emphasis on childcare since having children is probably the tipping point for when things start to become unequal in the home.
I don't feel like I walked away from reading this with any strong action items in my own life, so in that sense it wasn't that useful for me. But could be a good reminder if you happened to be in an unequal partnership that you should expect more out of your partner (or yourself).